cv/cv2.typ

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#set document(author: "Joshua Coles", title: "CV")
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      text(size: 16pt)[Senior Full-stack Developer]
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== Who am I?

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    [A passionate and adaptable software engineer with a strong focus on high-quality, maintainable solutions. I thrive on understanding the business and organisational context, ensuring that technical solutions align with real-world needs.
    My approach is to focus on effective communication, problem-solving, and collaborative learning.
    In my recent experience I led the development of a real-time web application, collaborating closely with users to continuously evolve the product where I have developed a love and appreciation for correct solutions that respect their user and customers. /*I am excited about the opportunity to work with a collaborative, ambitious team like Ghyston's where I can contribute my experience while continuing to grow as an engineer.*/]
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// Experience section
== Experience

#entry(
  [2024 -- Present],
  [Lead Software Engineer],
  [Better Conversations Foundation / Amphora Research Systems Ltd.],
  [
    I work across Amphora and the non-profit Foundation (sister organisations)
    - Leading development of a real-time web application to reliably scale training sessions to large audiences and faciliate reliable team delivery. This has lead to at least a 5 fold increase in authoring productivity, with user's voluntarily adopting the product to deliver sessions.
    - Working with the two co-founders and the Foundation's partners to understand their needs and translate them into technical solutions.
    - Supporting junior developers through hands-on mentorship, improving their confidence and ability to  solve technical problems over a 6 month period.
    - Delivering training to the senior leadership team of a key multi-national business client based in Australia. This allowed me to quickly identify issues and iterate the product on a daily basis -- this short cycle time meant the technical solutions could quickly track changing business needs and grow confidence in the product.
    - Implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Amphora's SaaS product and tool calling for a novel distributed LLM inference engine, deployed over a cluster of macOS nodes. This involved working with a 3rd party project to develop a business relationship, to align our goals, and contribute our work back to the core Github project.

    #kwlist("Ruby on Rails", "Ruby", "Turbo", "Stimulus JS", "Tailwind CSS", "iOS", "Python", "LLMs", "Project Management", "Mentorship")
  ]
)

#entry(
  [May 2023 -- October 2023],
  [Software Developer],
  [Better Conversations Foundation / Amphora Research Systems Ltd.],
  [
    I lead efforts exploring the feasibility and application of AI based features in the main product.
    - Integrating vector based search and retrieval-augmented generation into the application in a non-intrusive manner.
    - Presenting work to customers and facilitating input on direction and feature fit.
    
    Once I completed my work with Amphora, I moved to work at a connected non-profit, Better Conversations Foundation as their primary developer.
    - Implementing the e-commerce and scheduling systems for managing cohorts and staff.
    - Prototyping real-time coaching flight-plans to allow coordination between Facilitators as sessions progress
    
    #kwlist("Ruby on Rails", "Stripe", "Langchain", "Vector Databases", "Python")
  ]
)

// #pagebreak()

#entry(
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    2022 -- 2023#linebreak()#text(size: 0.8em)[part time aside studies]#linebreak()
    2021 -- 2022#linebreak()#text(size: 0.8em)[placement year]
  ],
  [Software Developer],
  [Office for National Statistics],
  [
    I joined a team developing software for processing the results of the 2021 Census, remaining after my placement year to assist with the next phase of product development and solution design. In this role I worked with sensitive data from the Census in isolated production environments and thus obtained SC clearance. Key contributions include,
    - Taking a leading role as release manager for the product, coordinating the work of the team ensuring we delivered working code on time.
    - Working closely with the business product owner to understand the business needs and translate them into technical solutions, being heavily involved in requirements gathering for the new features.
    - Developing tools for debugging and observability in sensitive production environments, greatly increasing the our ability to diagnose production issues quickly.
    - Designing architectures for the next stage of the project to address additional business needs, focusing on a cloud-based solution using GCP and Terraform.
    
    // This role gave me an appreciation for how the interpersonal aspects of successful team are crucial for the overall success of a project. This was especially important when interfacing with the wider organisation on the direction of the project.

    #kwlist("React", "Redux", "Jest", "Cypress", "Accessibility", "Redis", "Express",  "SQL", "Postgres", "HBase", "Scala", "Cloudera", "Jenkins", "Docker", "Typescript", "JavaScript", "Linux", "Microservices", "Agile", "Scrum", "Terraform", "GCP")
  ]
)

#entry(
  [
    2017 -- 2021
    #linebreak()
    #text(size: 0.8em)[Holidays & Part time]
  ],
  [Software Developer],
  [Amphora Research Systems Ltd.],
  [
    I worked independently to explore and investigate new technologies including,
    - Creating and maintaining SAML based customer access mechanism for confidential documentation.
    - Designing subscription management product using Wordpress as a Headless CMS for presentation under multiple service offering.
    
    #kwlist("SAML", "Groovy", "Java", "Ruby on Rails", "Ruby")
  ]
)

#entry(
  [2011 — present],
  [Ongoing Personal Projects],
  [],
  [
    I have been working on personal projects since 2011 and am a strong advocate for the benefits of self-hosting for privacy and personal development. My latest projects are focused on linking and analysing data across different aspects of my life. Recent work includes:
    - React based frontend for joining multiple time tracking systems to provide a unified view of my work.
    - Database and platform for cross-domain analytics in my life, involving data extraction and linkage across a range of sources, creating integrations where they don't exist.
    - Managing multiple servers and 15+ services with live monitoring and log and metrics aggregation.
    
    A history of these is available on my #link("https://github.com/joshuacoles")[GitHub] and #link("https://git.joshuacoles.me/explore/repos")[personal Gitea].//, along with this #link("https://git.joshuacoles.me/joshuacoles/cv")[CV and build process].
    
    #kwlist("Rust", "Python", "ETL", "CI/CD", "Github actions", "Postgres", "Caddy", "Docker", "Prometheus", "Grafana", "System administration")
  ]
)

// Education section
== Education
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#entry(
  [],
  [MSc Mathematics and Physics (Hons) (with Industrial Placement)],
  [University of Bath],
  [1st Class Honours. Placement with the ONS between academic years 2 and 3.
  #linebreak()
  Dissertation: AI Applications in Lagrangian Physics
  ]
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  [],
  [Prior Qualifications],
  [Reading Blue Coat School],
  [
    A Levels: Maths (A\*); Further Maths (A\*); Physics (A); Chemistry (A)
    
    GCSEs: 1 A\* with distinction, 8 A\*s, 2 A's, 1 B. Including A\* with distinction in Further Maths, A\*s in Maths, Sciences, English and Computing.
  ]
)

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    [#link("https://betterconversations.foundation/index.html")[Better Conversations] — 2022]
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    [ISO9001 and ISO27001 training — 2018]
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    [Long distance running; politics and governance and the applications of technology therein.]
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== References

Available upon request